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Funding round · Oct 17, 2026

CodeWall emerged from stealth on October 14, 2026, raising $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Osney Capital with participation from InReach Ventures, Antler and angel investors. The company builds autonomous AI agents that conduct continuous adversarial testing of enterprise security by simulating attacks from outside an organization without requiring credentials or inside knowledge.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

iVerify and the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance announced the inaugural Advanced Mobile Security Summit, a closed-door event scheduled for November 10, 2026 in New York City. The summit brings together CISOs, security leaders, government experts, threat researchers and academics to discuss mobile threats and advance detection and response capabilities.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

ICIMS launched a new Fraud Detection category in its Marketplace, integrating Socure and ApplicantX by Brilliant as the first partners. Socure delivers identity verification directly within ICIMS to flag synthetic and fabricated identities, while ICIMS also embedded native fraud controls including leaked-credential blocking, which blocked 417,000 breached passwords in 2025 alone.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Surf AI launched an intelligence layer powered by Surf embedded directly into the Bithumb platform during Korea Blockchain Week. The company hosted two events to meet industry partners and the Korean community.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

A major industrial automation vendor and an OT security firm expanded their partnership to protect controllers from vulnerabilities while patches are being developed. The solution uses hardware-based filtering to pass only necessary traffic between controllers, distributed control systems, and safety systems.

Acquired · Oct 17, 2026

IonQ, a publicly traded quantum computing company based in College Park, Maryland, agreed to acquire Elisity, a Dallas-based cybersecurity company, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3 billion. The deal is expected to close later this year, with Elisity's CEO James Winebrenner remaining in his role after the acquisition.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

NeuralTrust and KPMG España announced a partnership to secure AI agents in enterprise environments. The two firms will implement agent governance controls that run on every tool call and block indirect prompt injection attacks before agents can act on them.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

Horizon3.ai and Pax8 expanded their partnership to Europe through the Pax8 Marketplace, making Horizon3's NodeZero Proactive Security Platform available to managed service providers across the region.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, signed a reseller partnership agreement with KnowBe4 to distribute KnowBe4's security awareness, phishing simulation, and risk management solutions across Africa. KnowBe4's platform will be integrated into Liquid C2's Secure360 portfolio and bundled with managed cybersecurity services.

Acquisition · Oct 16, 2026

Proofpoint acquired Varonis in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion. Varonis shareholders will receive $49.75 per share, representing a 52% premium to the stock's June closing price before sale rumors emerged.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

CrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to customize NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model for agentic blue teaming in enterprise security. The model features 120B total parameters with 12B active per token and combines reasoning with text, image, document, and video understanding capabilities.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Horizon3.ai became an official partner in the Torq AMP program. The partnership enables security teams to identify real attack paths, prioritize vulnerabilities, and validate fixes.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Palo Alto Networks integrated its Prisma AIRS product directly with Anthropic's Claude Enterprise to provide governance and oversight for agentic AI systems that execute workflows rather than just answering questions.

Product launch · Oct 15, 2026

Snyk launched Evo Agentic AppSec, a suite of AI security agents that automatically finds, fixes, and blocks vulnerabilities in code. The product includes five components: Code Scanning Agent, Dependency Firewall, Security Review agent, Remediation Agent, and Secrets Detection, with the Remediation Agent successfully shipping fixes 90% of the time on open source dependency issues.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Above Security and Nisos integrated Nisos Ascend external human-risk intelligence directly into Above's incident investigation platform. The integration displays external human-risk data alongside Above's AI investigators' findings from SaaS, identity, endpoint, and AI tools without requiring separate logins or manual data transfer.

Product launch · Oct 15, 2026

Eye Security released three new supply-chain hardening tools called npm-harden, pypi-harden, and ci-audit. These tools audit package-manager and GitHub Actions settings to identify security gaps and enforce a three-day release-age cooldown on new npm and PyPI packages.

Product launch · Oct 15, 2026

Strike48 launched the University SOC Program, offering free access to its agentic orchestration platform to qualified academic institutions with cybersecurity programs, student-run security operations centers, or cyber clinics.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Cyera launched Cyera Agent Guardian in the Anthropic Claude Marketplace, making the security tool available to organizations using Claude environments. The product monitors AI agents in real-time and blocks unauthorized actions like out-of-policy commands and unapproved database changes before they execute.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Alice partnered with AI21 Labs to improve the safety of open-source AI agents. AI21 post-trained NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model using Alice's reinforcement learning environments and adversarial datasets, resulting in a model 41 points more resilient to prompt injection attacks than GPT-6.1 Sol.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Netskope expanded its partnership with BT International to offer optimized connectivity to Netskope One SSE through BT International's Global Fabric network-as-a-service platform.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Palo Alto Networks partnered with IBM to deliver next-generation cloud-based security solutions for the NHS Secure Boundary programme. The service will protect internet traffic and infrastructure across more than 200 NHS trusts, 55,000 organisations handling health data, and approximately 2 million devices.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

ColorTokens made its Xshield microsegmentation platform available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. The integration allows organizations to deploy Zero Trust microsegmentation policies through CrowdStrike Falcon sensors without installing additional endpoint software.